ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests several components of a strategy international donors might pursue to facilitate an improvement in Africa's governance. It integrates contemporary research and analysis of Africa's political problems, and draws out of that the dynamics which underlie them. The chapter also suggests several structural changes needed to alter these dynamics and reviews the priorities, directions, and structures international donors might pursue in their assistance programs to facilitate these structural changes. Most important for Africa, was the development of what some Africans themselves have called a massive capitalconsumption class whose primary priority became maintaining and strengthening their economically and politically privileged position. Current legal systems work primarily to provide economic rents for governmental officials; to slow the response of markets to economic needs (such as public utilities); to impede international investment; to suppress savings, capital accumulation, and investment; and to interfere with the mobility of property and labor through private contract.
